I was young and strong in those days—as active as a mountain cat in my Hieland home, and could ride for twenty-four hours at a stretch, if I had special wark in hand.
Because a young fellow has given you a job of wark to cut his father's headstone and tell a lie or two in letters half an inch deep and two shillings a dozen--does that show 'at he's fretting?
Yesterday morning when I went to wark I found Paul Ritson lying full length across his father's grave.
Never let yer wark get the upper hand o' yer wages--them's my maxims.
It's slow wark suppen buttermilk wi' a pitchfork," thought Gubblum, and he proceeded to employ a spoon.
Got your smelting-house at wark down at the pit, Mattha?
And whan that your wark is weill deen, Yese get your sark without a seam.
We had nae mair for our seven years wark But to shape an suc the king's son a sark.
And whan our seven years wark was done, We laid it out upo the green.
And it was a' our seven years wark To sew our father's seven sarks.
And whan our seven years wark was done, We laid it out upon the green.
And ye maun harrow 't wi a thorn, And hae your wark done ere the morn.
She's busy the noo, an' she sent me up to keep ye cheery till her wark was dune.
Tom's gaun up to the lawyer the morn to hand everything ower to him, an' Mrs Jardine and the bairns are leavin' Thornhill on Friday to stay wi' her mither till Tom gets wark somewhere.
Feyther trusts him, and Eneas never has a word out o' the way with him, and you ken that Eneas is often gey ill to wark wi', and vera demanding.
Why didn't I sit still or go to the wark He wants me to do.
I dinna ken what kind o' wark that may be, Sir, but Mither always cleaned the house weel, before the herring came.
If it was mysel', I could ask you for anything I ought to have, but Neil is vera shy, and he kens weel how hard you wark for your money.
Then put this money in the bank, and go towark with all your mind, and all your soul.
Women folk hae their hands full o' wark o' some kind, then.
The hard warkand the frugality are good for them, and, Neil, we are expecting you to be head and front among them.
Then ey mun do the warkwithout him," pursued the little girl; "an ey win no longer delay it.
Never mind: I hae dune pretty fair wark on the English side in my day, and that's some comfort.
He was a puir weaver body, wi' a wife and a hantel o' weans, and sair wark he had to keep the house owre his head.
I'll scatter it o'er the Raven stone, And they'll hae some wark ere it's mowed again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wark" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
